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Description: | A cast copper-alloy end cap (terminal) from a scale-tang knife of Post-Medieval date (16-17th century). The terminal in the form of a horse's hoof and lower leg. It is curved with an oval cross-section. The hoof is shod and the shoe is flat apart from a pair of raised elements at the rear (representing calkins). The frog is denoted by a triangular groove. Around this are five rectangular punches, two on each side and one at the end, representing shoe nails. There are grooves around the sides of the object to delineate the shoe, hoof, the pastern (which is slightly waisted), and the lower fetlock above this. There is some ferrous corrosion in the slot at the other end of the terminal, the remains of the knife's iron tang.The use of a horse's foot is a common type for end caps in the Post Medieval period. Several good examples are found on the PAS database (e.g. SF-388A25, HAMP-462E17 or LON-3D5421), and a good excavated parallel is noted in Egan, (2005: 93, no. 398) from a late 15th - early 16th century context. The metal of this artefact is a green-brown colour with lighter areas of corrosion product.
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